Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roared. Thundering across the perfectly smooth Bat'a airfield the plane began to lift, vanished into the fog and then inexplicably crashed. Both the pilot and Thomas Bat'a were killed. They were buried near each other in a nearby woodland cemetery. Last week at the exact moment of the crash, the House of Bat'a's 25,000 working partners gathered not to mourn but to dedicate. On a hill opposite the sprawling shoe works rises a brand new, two-story, ferroconcrete Bat'a Pantheon. Not a tomb-for the First Working Partner would...
...more necessary that the Catholics . . . find in the diplomatic pacts between the Holy See and the Nazi Government guarantees which can assure them at least the maintenance of their position in the life of the nation. German Catholics . . . cannot reprove the Vatican for having abandoned them in a moment of crisis...
...result was never in much doubt. Wood, outdriving his opponent by as much as 60 yds., was seldom nearer to the pin with his approaches. Shute, who said later that he had set himself the task of keeping ahead of Wood for the first round, had one tight moment when his approach caught Ginger-beer bunker on the 14th. He pitched out, sank his putt for a birdie and ended the first 18 holes still three strokes up. In the afternoon, Wood took 39 to the turn as he had done in the morning. At the 33rd, he was still...
...moment the house was finished it became the social capital of Chicago. About it and Bertha Honore Palmer, firmly enthroned in her own Italian hall, sprang up a vast folklore. One famed Chicago social organization once had the temerity to entertain simultaneously with Mrs. Palmer but only a society editor appeared. Bertha Palmer maintained winter palaces in London and Paris but they served chiefly as hunting preserves where she caught European royalty and nobility for her Chicago castle. Chicago was good to Mrs. Palmer. It was always properly dazzled by her social display. Her only serious setback occurred...
...moment Mr. Kahn paused to remark, "I know a great deal must be changed; I know the time is ripe to have it changed." At another he damned stock gambling. Again & again he declared in a dozen different ways how deeply the excesses of 1929 had shaken his faith in the capitalistic system: "We can only plead that we were young and that we were learning, and all experience is a costly experience...